January 19, 2007; 05:00 AM
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) the creator of Java technology,
the Solaris Operating System and the world's leading contributor of
open source code, today announced new third party support and
contributions to the NetBeans 5.5 Integrated Development Environment
(IDE). This includes the general availability of the NetBeans Mobility
Pack for Connected Device Configuration (CDC) 5.5, which features
significant code contributions from Ricoh Corporation. In addition,
collaborative software development specialist Intland Software has
joined the NetBeans Strategic Partner Program and created a new plug-in
for its CodeBeamer technology for the NetBeans 5.5 IDE, which is
already being used by the United States Department of Agriculture.
"Community
and third-party involvement is a testament to the strength and adoption
of the NetBeans platform. We are thrilled to be working with
organizations such as Ricoh and Intland to extend the NetBeans open
source development environment,"said Jeet Kaul, vice president, Java
Developer Platforms Group, Sun Microsystems. "Having these companies
align with the NetBeans community, build plug-ins for the IDE and
contribute code to NetBeans software projects has exponential benefits
for all developers using NetBeans software-based tool solutions."
The NetBeans Mobility Pack for CDC 5.5 enables visual design and
development of Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) applications for
devices using CDC. CDC provides a powerful embedded Java technology
solution for a variety of devices, from smartphones and set-top boxes
to multi-function peripherals. Ricoh has been an important and active
contributor to the NetBeans Mobility project and is recommending the
NetBeans solution to their developer community. The NetBeans Mobility
Pack for CDC 5.5 will be available for free download next week at: http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/index.php?rs=6&p=10
"The
NetBeans IDE has given our Ricoh Developer Program members a powerful
tool for leveraging the Java ME platform to create market-making
document management solutions," said Mark Minshull, vice president of
Solutions Engineering of Ricoh Corporation. "The open-source NetBeans
software project gives us the opportunity to ensure that integrated
development tools supporting our devices are readily available and give
Ricoh developers the resources they require."
Intland Software's
CodeBeamer is a Java technology-based collaborative software
development platform. As part of its participation in the NetBeans
Strategic Partner Program, Intland has developed a CodeBeamer plug-in
for the NetBeans IDE. The CodeBeamer plug-in is open source,
GPL-licensed, and a 15-user version is available now for free download
at http://www.intland.com/products/cb-download.html .
"Intland
is providing a fully integrated plug-in for the NetBeans IDE, providing
complete application life cycle management capabilities including
enterprise wiki, trackers for bugs, task, changes and requirements as
well as project management," said Janos Koppany, CEO, Intland Software.
The CodeBeamer plug-in, helps to integrate NetBeans software developers
into teams and teams into enterprises in order to collaborate, share
knowledge, and develop software projects effectively from diverse
locations and geographies. Together, CodeBeamer and NetBeans software
provide an integrated solution, complete with developer tools, for both
document and source code management."
The United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA)/Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS) is using the CodeBeamer collaboration system and its NetBeans
IDE plug-in, along with the open source Subversion version management
system to expedite software development across the USDA organization,
which requires the participation of over 675 users and 200 projects
across diverse geographical locations.
"At USDA/NRCS we are
standardizing our modeling efforts for projects, such as a water supply
forecasting project in the U.S., using a NetBeans IDE-based Modeling
Platform (Object Modeling System)," said Olaf David, Research Computer
Scientist at USDA/NRCS. "We chose the NetBeans IDE, CodeBeamer, and
Subversion because together they provide the only fully integrated
collaboration solution that effectively facilitates our development and
deployment of simulation models."
For a full list of NetBeans Strategic Partners and information about joining the program, visit: http://www.netbeans.org/community/partners/strategic.html
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the
development of technologies that power the world's most important
markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building
communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the
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